Hardy s Homecoming content synopsis and plot introduction

The book "Returning Home" mainly writes about a tragedy in which the two heroes and heroines are happily united and then go to a tragic rupture. The hero is Clem Yobright, a young man from a wealthy family in the Aden Heath, who has received a good education since childhood, and has been sent to Paris to study business, and has become a successful businessman, and it seems that a bright future has been revealed in front of him. However, he saw so much unfairness behind this superficially drunken and flashy life.

Perhaps because he lived in a poor village since he was a child, he has always been full of sympathy and love for the villagers and the countryside, so he hates this kind of drunken life, and only wants to return to the countryside to improve the knowledge level of the villagers through education and help them change their destiny. Of course, from a historical point of view, what he wanted to do was actually contrary to the trend of social progress, and this attempt to maintain the old rural way of life was unrealizable, which ultimately led to the tragedy of his life.

Eustasia Viy, a girl who was born in the city but was forced to join her grandfather because of the death of her parents, and lived in the Aden Wasteland far from the city, is a beautiful girl with a cold appearance, and her heart longs to live in a big city like Paris, live a good life in high society, and realize the value of her life. When she found Jobright returning home, she immediately saw him as a bridge to the other side of her life, so she took a decisive step and tried by all means to meet Jobright, and established a love relationship with him, and finally married him, despite the strong opposition of Yobright's mother.

These are two young people with very different goals in life, and the reader can imagine that the end result of the two of them can only be to go their separate ways. Due to the different goals of life, an irreconcilable contradiction arises between them, and this contradiction and conflict intensifies, forcing Eustasia to run away from home with her old lover on a stormy night, but unfortunately she is swept away by the flood and dies. Two young daggers who should not have been lovers play a love tragedy.

The scene of the story, the Edun Wasteland, and the inhabitants of the wasteland who adhere to traditional customs and customs, are the epitome of the entire human living environment. The relationship between the hero and heroine in the story and the wasteland, whether it is Clint Yaober's return to the wasteland and the transformation of the wasteland, or the tired of the wasteland and the escape from the wasteland of Tessa all reflect the fierce conflict between the "modern" youth and the environment of Hardy's time. Clint Yao Bo was a young and promising young man, returning from Paris, full of good intentions born from the French utopian socialist ideology, and voluntarily abandoning the troubles and intoxications of the prosperous world, intending to start a small business of economic prosperity and enlightenment in the poor countryside of his hometown, but he was first opposed by his widowed mother and new wife, who were closest to him.

Due to the trick of fate, he suddenly suffered from an eye disease, which in turn contributed to his failure. The conflict between the heroine You Tessa and the environment is in the opposite direction to Yao Bo. Yao Bo was born in the wasteland - to the prosperous world - to return to the wasteland; Tessa was born in a bustling world - in the wasteland - with the intention of escaping the wasteland.

Although both of them are dissatisfied with the status quo and have a "modern" consciousness that goes beyond the traditional customs and thoughts of the wasteland people, they are still incompatible with each other. Such a pair of young men and women, most of them are attracted to each other by their appearance, coupled with the misunderstanding of each other at the stage of first acquaintance, and they become marriage partners under the emotional impulse of the moment, and their conflict after marriage is even more intense. This kind of conflict is not only difficult to resolve and reduce according to the situation, but on the contrary, it is becoming more and more intense, and finally it will inevitably lead to tragedy.

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Homecoming, published in 1878, was an important mid-term work of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Hardy, the great poet of the late nineteenth century and the great poet of the early twentieth century, has long been familiar and appreciated by Chinese readers, and his masterpieces of poetry and poetry, such as "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", "Jude the Nameless", "Homecoming", "Mayor of Casterbridge", "Three Strangers", "Kings", etc., have been introduced to China through Chinese translations since the twenties and thirties of this century. In his creative career, Hardy consciously pursued the idea that literature "reflects life, exposes life, and criticizes life"; At the same time, he consciously explores the continuous innovation in art.

Homecoming is the embodiment of this dual consciousness in Hardy's work.

Quoted from Hardy, True Frankness in England (1890).

When Hardy looked back on his entire creative process after entering the twentieth century, he divided his works into categories, the most important of which is called "Character and Environment", the main purpose of which is to reflect the conflict between people and the environment in real life (including the natural environment and the social environment). This is the result of Hardy's acceptance of Darwin's evolutionary ideas and their permeability in his creation. The theory of evolution as a ...... of the nineteenth century

It should be the whole book.

No, it was made into a movie.

The film Homecoming, 1983 China, but not by Thomas Hardy.